Adventures of Ideas

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The deepest definition of Youth is, Life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Youth

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Alfred North Whitehead

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Adventures of Ideas

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Philosophical literature

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English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. The Macmillan Company/Simon and Schuster, 1933, ch. 20, sec. 5.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

Alfred North Whitehead

Adventures of Ideas

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Civilization

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Alfred North Whitehead

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Adventures of Ideas

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Philosophical literature

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English

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1933 1930s 20th century

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. The Macmillan Company/Simon and Schuster, 1933, ch. 19, sec. 1.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true…But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.

Alfred North Whitehead

Adventures of Ideas

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Ideas

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Alfred North Whitehead

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Adventures of Ideas

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Philosophical literature

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English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. The Macmillan Company/Simon and Schuster, 1933, ch. 16, sec. 3.